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MPI’S MEETING GUIDE TO GAMING Northern Quest Resort & Casino northernquest.com Business has never been such a pleasure at Northern Quest Resort & Casino, the Inland Northwest’s only AAA Four Diamond Casino Resort and the region’s newest destination complex. All 250 oversized guest rooms and suites have contemporary furnishings, clean lines and a distinctive, modern feel. Offering more than 22,000 square feet of flexible meeting space—16,000 square feet of dedicated conference rooms—and a ballroom measuring more than 11,000 square feet, Northern Quest is a meeting planner’s dream. Meeting space features state-of-the-art integrated technology, free Wi-Fi with dedicated bandwidth to ensure maximum speed for great presentations. And, once the business day is done, meeting attendees can try their luck in a first-class casino offering 2,000 slots and progressives, 37 table games and nine live poker tables. They can also dine in one of the 14 restaurants and lounges located on property (including Masselow’s Restaurant, the only AAA Four Diamond restaurant in Eastern Washington), enjoy star-studded entertainment or relax in Current, the property’s full-service luxury spa. Combine all of this with complimentary overnight valet parking, airport and area-wide transportation and wireless Internet, and you’ll see why Northern Quest offers something for everyone! For more information, contact Mimi Hall Gus- tafson, director of hotel sales and marketing, at (877) 323-9827 or www.northernquest.com. 38 one+ 05.11 SUPPLEMENT http://www.northernquest.com http://www.northernquest.com http://www.northerquest.com http://www.northerquest.com

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of One + May 2011

One + May 2011
Contents
Energy of Many
Impressions
Meeting Design Goes Mobile
Picking Brains
Agenda
Ask the Experts
Thoughts+Leaders
Overheard
Art of Travel
Web Watch
Radical Co-creation
Engagement + Innovation = Wunderbar
Top Spots
Connections
Irrelevant
The Business of Being Social
Safety in Numbers
Ads, Sponsors and Patrons
Should I Stay or Should I Go?
It’s Getting Better All the Time
Blame It on Rio
Ride Free
Learning How the Brain Learns
Just Face It
Becoming Mindful with Your Meetings
Group Think
The Mesh Meeting
Your Community
Making a Difference
Until We Meet Again

One + May 2011